#bristlecone — Public Fediverse posts

From the archive: “An Ancient One” — An ancient bristelcone pine standing alone on a rocky ridge, White Mountains.

https://gdanmitchell.com/2022/11/11/an-ancient-one/

#bristlecone #tree #classicmono #photo #photography #photoOfTheDay #lensCulture #landscapePhotography #photographyLovers #naturePhotography #fineArtPhotography #nature

The Old and the Older by geekyrocketguy

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxihKB9tya00

#ancient #bristlecone #pine #forest #tree #milkyway #california #bigpine #patriarch #grove #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Anyone else out there interested in #slitscan #photography?

https://mdpaths.com/rrr/travel/california/bristlecone_pines/index.html

#Bristlecone #Pines #California #NaturePhotography

Sometime around the end of the last ice age
—around 20,000 years ago
—a single aspen seed rooted, sprouted, and began cloning itself
in what is now central Utah.
Known as #Pando, which comes from the Latin “I spread,”
🔸the world’s largest known organism continues to grow today,
🔹comprising more than 40,000 individual trees.
🔸Every trunk emerged as a shoot from the same root system,
🔹and scientists estimate Pando weighs about 13 million pounds.

For photographer Mitch Epstein, the phenomenal resilience, scale, and lengthy lifespans of trees form the basis of his ongoing series #Old #Growth. 

From the world’s most voluminous #sequoias to the most ancient weathered and gnarled #bristlecone #pines
—which can live more than 4,000 years
—he captures remarkable stalwarts around the U.S.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/mitch-epstein-old-growth/

A peak-a-boo waxing gibbous Moon photographed from the Methuselah Trail at ~3048m (10,000ft) in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, White Mountains, California (6/4/2017). I ❤️ Bristlecones!

#Bristlecone #Dendrochronology #Forest #Moon #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Photography #LinuxPhotography #Darktable

Just the same bristlecone in full (if not exactly “living”) color. It’s protected better these days, with lots of signs saying to stay on the trail, and that it’s illegal to take photos from off-trail, which is nice to see… #bristlecone #bristleconepine #whitemountains #california #discoverytrail #ilovecalifornia

Probably the most-photographed bristlecone pine in the world. It’s long dead, but still it stands against the elements high in the White Mountains of California. It’s right on the Discovery Trail, not far from the visitor center parking lot. #bristlecone #bristleconepine #whitemountains #photography #blackandwhitephotograhy #owensvalley

A marvel of nature, among the oldest trees (thousands of years) in the world are the bristlecone pine, They thrive in the harshest of environments at high altitudes. These were photographed in Great Basin NP, Nevada in 2019.
One dead, the other living (landscape shot)
#trees #bristlecone pine #Great Basin NP #nature #nationalpark